| На море третий день ненастье.
| There is bad weather on the sea for the third day.
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| На корабле порвало снасти.
| Gear broke on the ship.
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| Нет ни огней, и ни людей,
| There are no lights, and no people,
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| Лишь граммофон хрипит у борта,
| Only the gramophone wheezes at the side,
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| Хрипит надрезанной аортой,
| Wheezing from the incised aorta,
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| Что боль его напрасна.
| That his pain is in vain.
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| А жизнь прекрасна.
| And life is wonderful.
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| Порывом бурного течения.
| A rush of turbulent current.
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| Корабль несло на край мышления.
| The ship was carried to the edge of thinking.
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| И он взлетел на гребне скал.
| And he took off on the crest of the rocks.
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| И грянул голос граммофона.
| And the voice of the gramophone boomed.
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| Наперекор ревущим волнам,
| Against the roaring waves
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| Что смерть над ним не властна.
| That death has no power over him.
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| А жизнь прекрасна.
| And life is wonderful.
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| Ушла стихия вдаль победно.
| The elements went away victoriously.
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| Похоронив корабль бесследно.
| Buried the ship without a trace.
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| От пенья волн плыл граммофон.
| The gramophone floated from the singing of the waves.
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| Но он молчал — иссякла сила.
| But he was silent - his strength had dried up.
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| Что жизни голос в нем будила.
| That the voice in him woke up life.
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| И берегла всечасно.
| And took care of it all the time.
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| А жизнь прекрасна. | And life is wonderful. |